nep-spo 2017-01-01 papers

on Sports and Economics

Issue of 2017‒01‒01
one paper chosen by
João Carlos Correia Leitão
Universidade da Beira Interior

How Does Dishonesty Affect Winning and the Willingness to Compete? Evidence from a Stiff Competition Environment By Posadzy, Kinga; Josephson, Camilla; Martinsson, Peter

How Does Dishonesty Affect Winning and the Willingness to Compete? Evidence from a Stiff Competition Environment

By:	Posadzy, Kinga (Division of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University); Josephson, Camilla (Division of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University); Martinsson, Peter (Division of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University)
Abstract:	We experimentally investigate how the possibility of behaving dishonestly affects the willingness to compete and who the winner is when there is stiff competition. Our results show that although only some subjects are dishonest when competing, dishonest behaviour creates significant inefficiencies due to best performing subjects not winning. Willingness to compete, on the other hand, was unaffected.
Keywords:	Competition; dishonesty; experiment
JEL:	C91 D03 D04
Date:	2017–01–01
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:liuewp:0005&r=spo

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